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• “Classical culture is a lot of things including, literally, rape culture.” Rebecca Solnit on the Odyssey and the Western literary tradition of silencing women. | Lit Hub Criticism
• Kōhei Saitō examines why solutions rooted in capitalism will never stop climate change: “The metabolic relationship between humans and nature was once a cycle—a process that could be represented as a circle. But the movement of capital is one-way.” | Lit Hub Climate Change
• Should an author narrate their own audiobook, or should an actor? Maris Kreizman explores the importance of a good performance. | Lit Hub Criticism
• Isaac Butler and Rosa Campbell, authors whose recent books focus on the culture wars, discuss censorship, porn, capitalism, and art. | Lit Hub In Conversation
• “People are objects, terrified of one another as they wake up to nightmarish scenes.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
• Jim Downs Considers the work of Heather Cox Richardson, Jill Lepore, Kevin Kruse, and other public historians who remind us why we shouldn’t repeat humanity’s mistakes. | Lit Hub History
• Victoria Chang’s TBR includes work by Amina Cain, Karen Solie, Cecily Parks, and more! | Lit Hub Criticism
• Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
• “When Dad and I went to Dallas for Mom’s funeral, Dad gave me my own disposable camera with twenty four pictures on it.” Read from Meg Richardson’s new novel, Paradise Pawn. | Lit Hub Fiction
• Carey Baraka revisits The Gods Must Be Crazy, the most successful African movie ever made. | Equator
• Katie Porter is “closing the door” on her gubernatorial aspirations, and pivoting to… Bookstagram. | The Cut
• Oscar Duffield looks at recent English translations of two eighteenth century epic poems originally composed in Gaelic. | Asymptote
• As early Nancy Drew and Miss Marple books enter the public domain, it’s time to ask who owns the stories of women detectives. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• How backlash to a teen journalist’s reporting forced the staff of a high school paper to lawyer up. | Wired
• Emily Laskin translates two pieces from Russian: one by Lesya Lapina on the homophobia of Putin’s Center for Combating Extremism, the other by Sergey Hyugge on “an older, more chill version of the internet.” | The Dial

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